What is option "IP pad custom switch"

[grandamman]

Does anyone know what option "IP pad custom switch" is referring to?
This is listed on the window sticker of a 1980 Grand Am

 

[fleming442]

Just a guess that IP means Instrument Panel, and there is a switch mounted in the pad surrounding it.

 

[69hurstolds]

Well, apparently all the coupes had it that year as it was standard equipment. Whatever kind of switch it is.

 

[grandamman]

Just a guess that IP means Instrument Panel, and there is a switch mounted in the pad surrounding it.

So, it's not an Internet Provider switch?

 

[fleming442]

Were they still using power antenna switches in 1980? At some point, they became automated enough to not need a separate switch.
I don't think you could get fog lights...
Rear defogger?
Al Gore hadn't invented the internet yet, so no internet provider.

 

[pagrunt]

Maybe it refers to the Grand Am specific set up of the base LeMans for the rally gauges, quartz clock, G.A. spec trim as the "switch" from a Lemans trim dash?

 

[GP403]

Huh. Switch for the power sunroof in that "pad" just to the right of the steering wheel/down low? I think that's where the rear defrost/remote pass. mirror switches/stick went, too...

 

[grandamman]

Well, apparently all the coupes had it that year as it was standard equipment. Whatever kind of switch it is.

Not all coupes. I've ordered 2 PHS packets and those don't have it listed. These were both 1979 4 speed cars if that maters.

Huh. Switch for the power sunroof in that "pad" just to the right of the steering wheel/down low? I think that's where the rear defrost/remote pass. mirror switches/stick went, too...

The sunroof switch is up on the headliner be the sunroof.

There is a dealer added rear defrost switch where the factory rear defrost switch would normally be.

 

[69hurstolds]

Not all coupes. I've ordered 2 PHS packets and those don't have it listed. These were both 1979 4 speed cars if that maters.



The sunroof switch is up on the headliner be the sunroof.

There is a dealer added rear defrost switch where the factory rear defrost switch would normally be.

Did they view the 4 speed as a different model? On window stickers, at least 99.99% of the time, if you got a specific model, they listed the standard equipment in that space that came on every car of the same model regardless of engine/trans/tires/seats, etc. There would have to be something in the options to enhance or replace the standard equipment. So if there wasn't a switch on the instrument panel, there's some option added to the car that removed/replaced it.

For example, 442s have 3.8L V6 and 14" tires in the list of standard equipment. The W42 option removed them for V8 and 15".

 

[GP403]

Not all coupes. I've ordered 2 PHS packets and those don't have it listed. These were both 1979 4 speed cars if that maters.



The sunroof switch is up on the headliner be the sunroof.

There is a dealer added rear defrost switch where the factory rear defrost switch would normally be.

Ah never owned a sunroof car so didn't know that. Yeah totally stumped then.